Deadmau5 announces new album, 'While (1<2),' release date

EDM artist Deadmau5 announced the release date of his upcoming album, While (1<2), will be June 17 of this year.

NYEDM first reported the news saying that pre-orders for the seventh studio album can be placed starting on May 10. This new album will feature a two-disc release with 25 tracks. While (1<2> is the follow up effort to 2012's Album Title Goes Here.

Rumors starting flying about the album release date when Deadmau5 retweeted a tweet that had hints regarding information about the album release date.

New @deadmau5 album comes out 6/17/2014
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That can't be a coincidence.

Billboard reported that the album is likely to feature a variety of collaborations including one with his fiancee Kat Von D.

Deadmau5, who's real name is Joel Zimmerman, recently spoke about the process of putting together such a large album when he has immense variety of musical projects in the works. "While (1<2)" would contain “fresh stuff that’s going to attract new fans" and “a couple of tracks that are quite radio-friendly, not even dance music, that [I'm] going to put out as singles," said Deadmau5.